One in 10 positive cases have ‘Long-Covid’
Dr Roberta Meta 29th April 2021
Over one in 10 individuals who tested positive for Covid-19 in Gibraltar have returned to the Primary Care Centre with prolonged symptoms after contracting the virus.
Fatigue, shortness of breath, headaches, chest pain or tightness, problems with memory and concentration such as brain fog, difficulty sleeping, heart palpitations, dizziness and pins and needles have been some of the more common symptoms.
A total of 4,283 individuals tested positive for Covid-19 in Gibraltar since the start of the pandemic, so it is estimated that over 400 people have taken longer to recover after six to 12 weeks of testing positive for the virus.
Risk factors for long COVID-19 in children
After more than a year of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it has become clear that children are less susceptible to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), both in terms of the number of infections and the severity of illness.
However, some children do develop severe disease as well as a host of long-term complications or sequelae. A new study, released as a preprint on the
medRxiv server, describes the risk factors and outcomes of such “long COVID-19” in a cohort of children who were hospitalized with COVID-19.
Earlier studies show that COVID-19 is associated with both immediate and long-term health issues. However, such studies in children and adolescents are few, except for some small case and cohort studies.
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